Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 114 152
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 +3
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 13 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 0.25% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.28% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £307 £429 £462
25th Percentile - £460 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £522 £523
Median % change year-on-year -31.42% -0.10% -0.71%
75th Percentile £500 £535 £550
90th Percentile £562 £537 £574
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +3.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,607 1,775 2,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.04% 87.35% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,104 1,741
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 70 56
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.73 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +8.80% -51.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £49.24
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.75 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +61.35%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -10 8 £358 -23.79%
Edinburgh +14 5 £546 - 1
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Confluence
1 3 (23.08%) JBoss
1 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
1 3 (23.08%) WebLogic
1 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DB2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) Toad
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Scrum Master
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) RAML
1 3 (23.08%) REST
1 3 (23.08%) SOAP
1 3 (23.08%) Web Services
1 3 (23.08%) WSDL
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Product Ownership
2 3 (23.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Backlog Management
3 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) Budget Control
4 5 (38.46%) Conflict Resolution
4 5 (38.46%) SDLC
4 5 (38.46%) Servant Leadership
5 4 (30.77%) Situational Awareness
6 3 (23.08%) API Development
6 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
6 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
6 3 (23.08%) Product Management
6 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 3 (23.08%) User Stories
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 2 (15.38%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe